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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge resume list
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:51:01
Message-Id: 20060406154849.56ca6f14@epia.jeroenr-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge resume list by evader
1 On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:52:48 +1000
2 evader <evader.aether@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > When I do an emerge -e world where is the list of files to be merged
5 > stored? For example if I break an emerge, and want to resume later
6 > from a different position, can I edit the packages to be emerged list
7 > so I don't have to do emerge --resume --skipfirst constantly?
8
9 Useful as this may seem, having to "do do emerge --resume --skipfirst
10 constantly" implies that that you need to clean out dependencies of
11 packages you once used and then unmerged, or that your system is
12 broken on a more basic level. Skipping packages that fail leaves the
13 unneeded, probably broken older builds in place and may cause
14 other packages to (partly) not build as well, and so on.
15
16
17 Kind regards,
18 JeR
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